Explanation To Institution Changes And Consume Stratification

The theories of social stratification divide social members into different grades with orderly level, different levels from social member's position in the social structure. This is playing important irreplaceable function to seeing clearly the social structure, understanding the functions of colony and organization for all. It is an important respect that must be involved while analyzing social structure and changes that the society divided into layer, which is paid attention to by numerous scholars. The modern most basic change of Chinese society, is no more than the changes of the social structure, the core of social structure changes is the changes that the structure of social stratification. After the policies of reform and opening in 1979, identity stratification begins to disintegrate, identity stratification drops, economy stratification rises. Since the 1990s, China consume characteristic of society is apparent, western consumption culture influence values, consumption change of view of people. This text combine the theories of social stratification and China's reality together, dividing social members into different layers on basis of consume, regarding high consumption stratum as target, has proved the view that " the institutional factor is a basic reason that the high consumption stratum of China appears at present, the directions of system changes has determined the trend of consume stratification our country in the future ".This text is divided into four parts. First part is an investigation of basic theories. It is the investigation to the theories of social stratification at first. It expounds the fact that the research of the western scholar fails to break through the theories tradition of social stratification after the theories that Marx and Webber started all the time. And to China's unique national conditions and social structure, the west traditional theories of adaptability is weak, which is mainly a kind of visual angle of analysis question that was left. Secondly, it has described the consumption research of the sociology orientation. The western scholar has stood in different position, investigated in consuming the relation with the stratum from different visual angle. Moreover, it has analyzed the rationality which divides layer by consumes. It is the power that the people's need to consume produced. As regards modern society, people's need depends on being satisfied by way of consuming more and more. Form the array with different level within the goods, correspond to people's income level, consuming capacity. It is rational that these factors have been determined to consume and divided layer. Finally, it expounds the factor that influents consume stratification.Second part, the concept of high consumption stratum is defined basically. Defining basically to high consumption at first. The high consumption is that which is higher than the general level of consumption. Secondly, it has described relation between high consumption and high income. Income high must cause high consumption, but income lowest people must occupy low consumption, like this, because certain income is a prerequisite of maintaining certain life style, so high consumption stratum must rely on high support of income has inference basis. Finally, it is the division basis of the high consumption stratum. The third part, it is the current situation analysis of the high consumption stratum. First of all, it describes the current situation of the high consumption stratum from the job, age, sex, academic credentials, etc.. Secondly, it is high consumption structure of stratum. The high consumption has changes from substance consumption to non-substance consumption, means of subsistence consumption proportion is low, enjoy and develop materials consumption take the main part, the need to various kinds of luxury goods and consumption demand of the service is high. Finally, it analyses high consumption generalization of stratum, expounds the fact that high consumption becomes and high consumption that stratum struc...